American General William Tecumseh Sherman came out with the truth at a speech at the Michigan Military Academy today in 1879. He said, 'I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine ... War is hell.' Sadly, later generations didn't listen - hence two world wars, Vietnam etc etc etc.
PS - hasn't Gen. Sherman got the coolest middle name ever?
In other news ...
In 1905, Russian troops opened fire of strikers in Odessa. More than 6000 died which is a tragedy and a terrible harbinger of worse that was to come in 1817. The only good this to come out of the Odessa steps massacre is Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin. Watch that and you'll be a Bolshevik all your life.
